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The excuse of fear: “nonlethal” force and the powerful
In the week between when the world discovered Sgt. Shamar Thomas, some dudes went crazy. The viral video of an Iraqi veteran chastising the New York police department for arming up against their own civilians as if it were a war zone was a wake-up call to the sleeping public. These public protesters aren’t impudent…
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Puritans: why Wall Street wasn’t occupied sooner
or #OccupyWallStreet and our fear of protests A favorite line over the last two weeks has been: I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner. Of course it did, but the media doesn’t really like protests. It is surprising since the news is all about sensationalism and big displays of strangeness and upsetting the status quo. It’s…